M25 crash J26 anticlockwise
Live Still reported at 17:55 UK time, since Wed 06:36 (83 h 20 min).
Crash on the M25 anticlockwise at J26 on Wednesday 23 September 2026, from 06:36. Still reported at 17:55 UK time. Timeline of reports from TomTom, the motorway signs and National Highways.
M25 anticlockwise · J26
Collision
since Wed 06:36 (83 h 20 min)
TomTom ×16 · Motorway signs ×9 · National Highways ×4 · 1 driver report
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Timeline
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~7 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~9 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~5 min
- TomTom: collision, “Stationary traffic, Accident”, delay ~12 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- Motorway signs: “COLLISION”
- National Highways: 1 of 4 lanes closed
- National Highways: 1 of 4 lanes closed
- TomTom: collision, “Accident, Lane closed”
- TomTom: collision, “Accident, Lane closed”
- National Highways: 1 of 4 lanes closed
- Motorway signs: “LANE CLOSED FOR INCIDENT ACCESS”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: collision, “Accident, Lane closed”
- TomTom: delay now ~22 min (was ~12)
- National Highways: lane closure lifted
- TomTom: now says queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”
- Motorway signs no longer show “LANE CLOSED FOR INCIDENT ACCESS”
- Motorway signs no longer show “COLLISION”
- TomTom: collision, “Accident”, 1 driver report
- National Highways: lane closure lifted
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~6 min
- TomTom: delay now ~12 min (was ~25), “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~6 min
- Motorway signs: “STRANDED VEHICLE”
- Motorway signs: “STRANDED VEHICLE-SLOW”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~10 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~4 min
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- Motorway signs: “REPORT OF COLLISION”
- Motorway signs no longer show “STRANDED VEHICLE”
- Motorway signs no longer show “STRANDED VEHICLE-SLOW”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- Motorway signs: “DEBRIS IN ROAD”
- TomTom: delay now ~28 min (was ~16), “Stationary traffic”
- Motorway signs: “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- Motorway signs no longer show “REPORT OF COLLISION”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- Motorway signs: “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- Motorway signs no longer show “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- Motorway signs no longer show “DEBRIS IN ROAD”
- TomTom: lane closure, “Hard shoulder closed”
- Motorway signs no longer show “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- Motorway signs: “STRANDED VEHICLE-SLOW” (reported again)
- Motorway signs: “STRANDED VEHICLE” (reported again)
- Motorway signs no longer show “STRANDED VEHICLE”
- Motorway signs no longer show “STRANDED VEHICLE-SLOW”
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- Motorway signs: “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION” (reported again)
- Motorway signs: “OBSTRUCTION ON SLIP ROAD”
- Motorway signs no longer show “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- Motorway signs: “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION” (reported again)
- Motorway signs no longer show “OBSTRUCTION ON SLIP ROAD”
What the sources said
- Queuing traffic
- Slow traffic
- Accident, Lane closed
- Overhead signs read “LANE CLOSED FOR INCIDENT ACCESS” (1 sign; furthest along: M25 anti-clockwise between J26 and J25).
- Overhead signs read “COLLISION” (2 signs; furthest along: M25 anti-clockwise between J26 and J25).
- M25 anti-clockwise between J26 and J25
- M25 anti-clockwise within J26
- Accident
- Overhead signs read “STRANDED VEHICLE” (2 signs; furthest along: M25 anti-clockwise between J26 and J25).
- Overhead signs read “STRANDED VEHICLE-SLOW” (1 sign; furthest along: M25 anti-clockwise between J26 and J25).
- Stationary traffic
- Overhead signs read “REPORT OF COLLISION” (8 signs; furthest along: M25 clockwise between J25 and J26).
- Overhead signs read “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION” (1 sign; furthest along: M25 anti-clockwise between J25 and J24).
- Overhead signs read “DEBRIS IN ROAD” (1 sign; furthest along: M25 clockwise between J24 and J25).
- Overhead signs read “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION” (1 sign; furthest along: M25 clockwise between J24 and J25).
- Hard shoulder closed
- Overhead signs read “OBSTRUCTION ON SLIP ROAD” (1 sign; furthest along: M25 anti-clockwise between J25 and J24).
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